Spinach does tend to stay good longer than lettuce, it's true (it's also way tastier than lettuce).

What you should do with pre-packed greens, if you're getting them in a bag, is get some kind of sealable tub. Line the tub with paper towel, put the greens in, and then put a paper towel over top of them and seal it. I've had spinach last beyond three weeks by doing it this way.

Also, for celery or peppers, wrap them in aluminum foil to keep them fresh.

A container with paper towels works fine for peppers, celery, or anything. Even berries.

The key to preserving berries and veggies (especially once washed and cut up) is to carefully pat all the water off of them, then put them in a sealed bag/container with more DRY paper towels. I've had cut up pepper last a couple weeks with this trick, and I tried it side-by-side with berries. The berries in original packaging went bad within 3 days, the ones stored with paper towels carefully lasted 10 days.

Tonight for dinner I made italian seasoned grilled chicken + cavatippi pasta + basic Prego sauce and a ton of extra seasonings I tossed in (turned out really sweet but good) + green beans on the sides. I overcooked the chicken some (hard and crusty on the outside while juicy on the inside), but it overall was pretty damn tasty. Made waaaaay too much pasta though.

These got'damn wasabi and soy sauce almonds are the best fucking thing. I've been downing them like a maniac and got the girlfriend hooked on them, too. Walgreens has them on sale this week, five bucks for a one pound bag.

Apparently I should fucking make some "WARNING: INCLUDE(HTTP://WWW.WHATTHEFUCKSHOULDIMAKEFOR...COM/HEADER.PHP) [FUNCTION.INCLUDE]: FAILED TO OPEN STREAM: HTTP REQUEST FAILED! HTTP/1.1 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR IN /HOME6/ANONCOLL/PUBLIC_HTML/WHATTHEFUCKSHOULDIMAKEFORDINNER/INDEX.PHP ON LINE 21"

Channel 4 was showing a marathon of it here yesterday. It's like they were going out of their way to be obnoxiously, stereotypically British, at least with the blonde commentator guy.

Yeah. I actually liked the idea of splitting the commentators up again - the "Doc Hattori" equivalent was by far the best part of the show - but the PBP guy was just so freaking annoying that it defied description. It wasn't just the britishness, it was also... I dunno, he just was horrible. Everyone who bitches that AB and Kevin are too cutesy with their commentary on the American show need to sit down and be subjected to this show on a loop until they tear their ears out.

Also, WHY THE HELL DID THEY SCREW WITH THE FORMAT!?! A team of semi-qualified chefs making a dish each against the Iron Chef making four? Never mind that four dishes in an hour in and of itself is cowardly, but... it's Iron Chef! Everyone knows how it works!

I figure this is what happened during the first couple months of the Japanese show when they were doing those qualification rounds to see who'd get to challenge.

For a country (and channel) that puts out the best food television in the world, this was a shocking, appalling, miss.